We have developed a method for answering single answer questions automatically using a collection of documents or the Internet as a source of data for the production of the answer...
James R. Cowie, Yevgeny Ludovik, Hugo Molina-Salga...
Our participation in TREC 2003 aims to adapt the use of the DFR (Divergence From Randomness) models with Query Expansion (QE) to the robust track and the topic distillation task o...
Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Ro...
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity ...
In order to support various requirements from the user’s perspective, digital library (DL) systems may need to apply a large variety of services, such as query services for a spe...
Early modern books written in Latin contain many abbreviations of common words that are derived from earlier manuscript practice. While these abbreviations are usually easily deci...